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Published at LXer: When you work on a piece of software, you usually want to be able to build and test it manually on your local system, but without compromising your system or destabilizing the...

How secure is LUKS encryption? Are there any ways around it? Let's say that I encrypted a drive with LUKS with one of the best and longest passkeys. What would someone have to go through to...

Due to current situation with COVID-19 many people have to work from home and participate in video conferences. If you happen to need a new PC camera now like me you will find out that the prices of...

Hi My AP System and Router dont support a Landing Page. Sure I looking on the Internet and I found http://www.chillispot.org/ who look a little outdated to me. And I also found:...

Good morning/evening I'm trying to run a Virtual Machine on Slackware. When I try to start it, VirtualBox reports: "Kernel driver not accessible". I checked /dev/vboxdrv Code: --------- ...

Published at LXer: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Akademy and GUADEC events hosted by the KDE and GNOME projects have moved to online conferences. Read More......

This is on Fedora 28 with Gnome. LifeCam VX-1000 is an older USB web cam that matches the gscpa_sonixj driver. When I plug it in, I see this in the message buffer: Code: --------- [10979.278043]...

Is there a way to set up locale settings, like starting day of the week (its monday in Serbia), date display (its D.M.Y instedad od Y/M/D)

Hey all, Just wanted to drop a line and say hello. Finally dedicating a system to Linux. LK

Published at LXer: There are many good reasons to set up WordPress for your classroom.*As more schools switch to online classes, WordPress can become the go-to content management system. Teachers...

So the question for squashfs (most likely livecd/usb) users and/or kernel users. What compression method do you use? Most popular is lzma (xz) and deflate (gzip) but I know some were using lz4 or lzo...

long story longer, i currently have a k5000 4 port card, which only two folks had any input on when i had a question before, which has been having problems and is only getting older. i am trying to...

In using the touch command to create empty files, must one always be in the directory where the file(s) will be created?

Published at LXer: Want to get started with Logical Volume Manager in Linux? Here's a short overview of the tools you'll need. Read More......

Hi, A partition /dev/sdb in my server has failed FSCK check but I can't seem to figure out a way to repair it. In /etc/fstab, I have commented out this partition. I used the command umount...

Published at LXer: Developer Arne Exton is experimenting with new projects and released a version of his exGENT Linux distribution for the latest Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer. Read...

Good Morning/Evening people.I Installed ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS for a few days now and everything is runnning smoothly except for the fact that is not hahahaha.The deal is that when i am changing tabs on...

Hi, I'm back trying Linux, cross my fingers that this will be the ticket out of the brain-farms :D I don't want to make my life excessively complicated, I just want a stable virtualized server...

I have been unable to get my canon 6030 to print after installing the latest drivers from Canon ---Quote---...

I haven't been able to find much info about "upgrading" a 32 bit installation of Slackware to a 64 bit one, apart from an old post in 2009. Is there any straightforward way of doing it or is the only...

I have a RPi 3 with slackware 14.2 installed. I would like to use the gpio in a general way. I have a pi zero with raspbian installed and use sysfs to control the pins. I'm not using i2c or pwm or...

Published at LXer: In this article, we describe how to install and use Nmap to find devices connected to your Internet. Nmap is a great tool that can help you find devices attached to your network....

Hi! I recently built an LFS system using the 9.1 LFS book. I keep running into an issue at boot where kernel can't recognize my network interface printing that Code: --------- Interface wlp63s0...

Hello. How are you? Sorry to bother, I am very new in Linux and need some help. I been using Ubuntu for a while now. But now every a start de system it appear this message. "Kernel Panic -...

Published at LXer: In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle...

I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my old desktop computer (Dell Inspiron). I installed Dropbox from the Ubuntu Software. I already have it running on my laptop (also Ubuntu 18.04). The...

I installed ffmpeg-3 and ssr-0.3.11, both Slackbuilds packages, but as the codecs were not working, I decided to install the most current versions of the sources, from both programs. It didn't work...

I can't seem to reach local host, I can get on internet,but not local host. I just noticed there was an xcession error log as follows: Xsession: X session started for Paulsb2 at Fri 17 Apr 2020...

I was not sure where the best place for this post was, but all my machines are running Debian, so figured it may be ok here. The question may be more generic and valid for other distros too. ...

Hello I am trying to compile libva-utils package in CentOS 8. Since it is not available in CentOS 8 repo, I'm using EL7 package to compile it. But I don't know how to apply patches. Steps I...

Published at LXer: Apache Guacamole is a free, open-source and web-based remote desktop application that allows you to access your desktop machines through a web browser. In this tutorial, we will...

My Windows installation has an EFI partition and boots in secure boot. Is it possible to dual boot Linux on the same computer with this setup? Does Linux share the EFI partition with Windows and...

The following code works: Code: --------- $ echo "Name:James Herriot Bladibla James Herriot:9" | perl -ne '/Name:(\w*\s\w*).*\1:(\d)/ and print $2' --------- But when I insert newline in the...

First I'd like to take the opportunity to convey my most sincere best wishes to each and every one of you during this world-wide crisis and trust that you shall remain to be in the best of health...

I am facing error Logging into nordvpn in Parrot linux, i am able to login in other platforms but not in my linux desktop. command used Code: --------- $nordvpn login Please enter your...

Published at LXer: Or do they? This opinion piece from contributor David Both takes a look at when sudo makes sense, and when it does not. Read More......

I am able to telnet on a port at remote machine. However, I am unable to send packets on a connected socket. I run the command (ethtool -k rx off tx off) and then I am able to send packets on same...

Hi! I first started using Linux Mint Cinnamon back in mid December and by mid January, I was using it full time. I still have a lot to learn (and unlearn) so expect plenty of stupid questions. ;)

Hi, I have recently purchased a couple of the CF-C2 toughbooks with digitizer and touch screen. They came pre-installed with Win8 which I immediately set about replacing with Ubuntu 19:10 on one of...

hi, I check here 2 things. In ipsec vpn authentication we have client and server authentication and user authentication.is this correct? When we use a browser to acces a page served by apache...

This is a learning exercise done just for fun. It is inspired by a NYTimes word puzzle called Spelling Bee written by Patrick Berry. Have: a file of English words called WordList. Have: a...

Hi Guys, I found the desktop version of Debian Etch on http://repo.henio.net/! I'm Happy! Just not. After Installing, I Tried in VMware and Virtualbox, Then the screen is blinking, Then appears this...

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I'm currently a Mate 9 user with its stock Android. As I'm very old, my mobile phone use is quite modest. I use it as a phone, sometimes. I mainly use it to read ebooks (epub, pdf, never drm). When...

I have a pair of cheap USB cameras, bought six years apart but they look similar and probably have the same chipset. The brand is Tecknet, native resolution 1280x720, and lsusb reports them as ID...

Published at LXer: If you still believe that Linux can't be infected by malware, think again and then install these three applications to detect and prevent problems. Read More......

Published at LXer: The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 6.4.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 6.4 open-source office suite series for all supported...

Hello, I have a video card from AMD - drivers from MESA. How to prohibit installing drivers from nvidia and intel? Thanks in advance for your reply!

Hello Everyone, I am confused to choose linux over windows. which one is more secure and what the exact prince of linux. As I read Linux is generally more secure than Windows. Even though attack...

Hi All, I'm using rsync to copy files from my local machine to Google Drive: rsync -vaPHL (from local) /home/userzero/Desktop/directory (to remote) /mnt/backup *"backup"* is a mounted...